On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ > │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console > drivers. │ > │ The number then represents the font height (number of scan > lines). │ > │ Alternatively, the font may be represented as HEIGHTxWIDTH; > however, │ > │ such font specifications require the kbd console package (not > │ > │ console-tools) plus framebuffer (and the RadeonFB kernel driver > for │ > │ framebuffer does not support them either). │ > │ │ > │ Font heights can be useful for figuring out the real size of the > symbols │ > │ on the console. For reference, the font used when the computer > boots has │ > │ size 16. > > So, on the next page I set the font size to 16 and rebooted just for > grins and it made no difference. > > But on your suggestion, I looked at etc/modprobe.d and found..... > > root@greatstar:/etc/modprobe.d# cat radeon-kms.conf > options radeon modeset=1 > > I'm guessing that if I change the options radeon modeset from 1 to > 0, then the radeon drivers won't load on reboot. Then the standard > framebuffers situation would occur? BTW my video driver is onboard > and is an ATI RV610 if that helps at all. > > Do you think I'm correct in the idea of changing the modeset from 1 > to 0 and would I have problems by doing so? Thanks for your help. > I know i sound goofy but I did a safe upgrade today in the midst of > this mess and a cups file was upgraded and it hosed my printing up. > So far I have printed from the web and can get noting but black, not > blank, but black pages. <G> YOu can understand why I'm a bit > spooky. <G>
Some general points:
- You need modesettting, so don't disable it. KMS and radeondrmfb
are the future, and so it makes no sense to disable, especially
when it's a massive improvement on what came before. It will soon
(if not already, depending upon the driver), be required to use KMS
to run X11 and Wayland.
- Font setting works whether you are using a VGA console, framebuffer
console or KMS with radeondrmfb. The only differences are limitations
in the fontsizes you can load. VGA for example has limited space to
store a font, which limits you to IIRC 8×16. OTOH, the framebuffer
permits much bigger fonts (I'm using 28×14 for example with
KMS and radeondrmfb, and 32×16 also works).
- No need to reboot; just all "/etc/init.d/console-setup start" after
editing /etc/default/console-setup, to see if it works.
- Run setfont by hand to test font loading. That's all the above is
doing. This tells you if the console is capable of loading the
specific font. Example:
setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni2-TerminusBold20x10.psf.gz
Try it with all the font files for e.g. Uni2-TerminusBold and see
if there's a size limit. If there is, make sure that you're using
an appropriately-configured console, e.g. these are mine:
% dmesg | grep drmfb
[ 9.046243] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 9.485097] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
% fbset -i
mode "1920x1200"
geometry 1920 1200 1920 1200 32
timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
accel true
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : radeondrmfb
Address : 0xd0142000
Size : 9216000
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 1
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 7680
Accelerator : No
Regards,
Roger
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